| Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern America Contributor(s): Edsforth, Ronald (Editor), Bennett, Larry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791407659 ISBN-13: 9780791407653 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 90-47621 |
| Lexile Measure: 1600 |
| Series: Suny Popular Culture and Political Change |
| Physical Information: (1.06 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a collection of essays dealing with the ways in which specific popular entertainment media, mass consumer products, and popular movements affect politics and political culture in the United States. It seeks to present a range of possibilities that reflect the dimensions of the current debate and practice in the field. Some of the contributions to this volume place popular culture media such as films, music, and books in a broad social context, and several articles deal with the historical roots of twentieth-century American popular culture. Popular culture is treated as categorically neither good nor bad, in either political or aesthetic terms. Instead, the essays reflect the editors' convictions that popular culture is simply too important to be ignored by those academics who treat politics and its history seriously. The collection also shows that studying popular or mass culture in a historical way illuminates a variety of possible relationships between popular culture and politics. |